Nordic Council to address radicalisation

10.03.15 | News
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The issue of how to tackle extremism will be high on the agenda for this month’s meetings and minisession of the Nordic Council in Copenhagen, 25-26 March. A meeting of the full Council on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 March will look at the Region’s changing relationship with Russia.

Wednesday’s meeting on Russia and Ukraine will be held in the old second chamber of the Danish Parliament.

Meetings will continue on Thursday with a briefing on the terror attacks in Copenhagen and how they will affect Denmark’s policies on security and radicalisation. A plenary session will open with a debate on how Nordic co-operation can help to tackle extremism. Four Council committees will also meet on the Thursday morning to discuss the issue of radicalisation.

A Nordic ministerial network was founded in January to address various forms of extremism.

On the afternoon of 26 March, the President of the Nordic Council and representatives of the party groups will hold a press conference in the Council offices in Copenhagen to outline the Nordic approach to combating extremism.

The Council originally planned to hold its spring meetings and a theme session in Brussels before tighter security at the European Parliament resulted in the meetings being moved to Copenhagen.

The Nordic Council is the official inter-parliamentary body of the Nordic Region. The Council’s 87 MPs from all of the Nordic countries as well as Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Åland will gather in Copenhagen 25–26 March for meetings of the party groups and committees as well as plenary sessions. Follow the debates using hashtag #nrpol and at norden.org/NRmars